Category: Research

Kathryn Obenchain, Jennifer Barce

Obenchain, Barce receive IDOE grant to address state’s teacher shortages

The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) announced recipients of $10.6 million in funding to aid Indiana’s schools and community partners in supporting local initiatives to attract and retain educators across the state – including researchers in the College of Education.

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Kristen Seward (l) and Nielsen Pereira (center), interim co-directors of the Gifted Education Research & Resource Institute (GER2I); and Marcia Gentry (r), former director of GER2I; former professor of Gifted, Creative and Talented Studies

College researchers to improve access to gifted and talented education

A new College of Education research project addressing gifted and talented opportunities for underrepresented students recently received $3.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program.

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Hua-Hua Chang

Chang awarded NSF grant to provide real-time, actionable data to instructors

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to researchers in the Colleges of Education and Engineering will help instructors help students succeed.

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Chea Parton, Visiting Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction

Delivering Rural Education to Purdue from the Heart of Texas

Chea Parton, visiting assistant professor of curriculum and instruction since August 2022, became interested in rural education due to many experiences in her own life – including being a rural student from Gaston, Indiana, a rural undergraduate and graduate student at Purdue University, a rural teacher, and then a rural doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin.

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West Side students harvesting STEM know-how, with side of veggies, in GEAR UP program

Students at the Gary West Side Leadership Academy Thursday celebrated a fall bounty that went beyond tomatoes and beans. The students, who are participating in one of nine Indiana GEAR UP programs, watched the unveiling of a new greenhouse next...
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(left to right): F. Richard Olenchak, Kristen Seward, Anne Traynor, and Ophélie Desmet

New grant uses ‘positive psychology’ to better support underserved students in gifted and talented programming

Using cutting edge assessment strategies and innovative programming, a new five-year College of Education research project will seek to expand the access of underserved communities to gifted and talented programming. The grant uses techniques from positive psychology to provide these...
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